Then Google bought Youtube.
In the AI space it's unclear what/who they could buy -- OpenAI being obviously out of reach -- but it's possible they could find a good match.
They bought the most promising AI startup in the world for $650m and failed to integrate it or make use of it until ChatGPT was released.
That was DeepMind, nine years ago.
you're all just telling each other exactly this in hundreds of different ways.
I think Google invested like $2B+ in Anthropic
On the other hand OpenAI has been quick to take money. Mistral too, got an account immediately and able to add billing details and they don’t even have a usage page so I have no idea how much I have burned through.
IIUC their open Mixtral 8x7 maps to the mistral-small model (which while impressive is still behind gpt-4).
I guess they want to keep their best model behind the API for now.
Anyway, I second that Mistral does stand a good chance to compete with openai